late season. So extraordinary is it that we 
have given it the name of "Kellogg's 
Premier." Like Kellogg's Prize, our Premier 
was originated in Illinois, and there are 
many features — as to, yield, beauty of form, 
etc. — that promise to make it one of the 
most notable strawberry originations of re- 
cent years. 
In telling the story of Kellogg's Premier 
we shall be conservative, just as we have been 
in the case of all other new varieties we have 
introduced. The story is simply this: 
In 1911 fifty plants of this variety were 
sent to us by Mr. Edwin H. Riehl, who con- 
ducts a sub-experiment station for the state 
of Illinois. When sending us these plants 
Mr. Riehl wrote that he had tested hundreds 
of varieties and that this variety outclassed 
every other early variety he ever had known. 
Our first crop came in 1913, and it was a 
sight to behold. The fruit piled up around 
the vines in a manner that was astonishing. 
The berries were the largest and most beau- 
tifully formed we ever have seen on any 
early variety, and the fruit was deeply and 
richly colored. 
In the spring of 1912 we transferred fifty 
runner plants to another testing block, where 
about 120 varieties were in competition. 
These gave us a two-year-old row and a one- 
j'ear-old row to fruit in 1913. During May 
of that year we had frosts repeatedly, to- 
gether with very dry weather, and again on 
the 7th, 8th and 9th of June we had heavy 
frosts with the drouth still continuing; but 
in spite of these very unfavorable weather 
conditions the Premier gave us a splendid 
crop of perfectly formed berries. The two- 
year-old plants in that year outclassed the 
one-year-old plants. 
In 1914 Kellogg's Premier came forward 
with its usually big crop of beautifully 
formed and richly colored fruit. Each year 
we have received the most glowing reports 
from Mr. Riehl in regard to the perform- 
ance of this variety on his grounds. And 
here is the most interesting part of our 
story. The soil on which Mr. Riehl grew 
these berries was composed of a very heavy 
and gummy clay, while our soil is a rich 
sandy loam, composed of about one-fourth 
clay and three-fourths sandy loam. 
The fact that Kellogg's Premier outclassed 
all other early varieties with which it com- 
peted here on our farms, added to the fact 
that it outclassed all other early varieties, 
both standard and new, in the heavy clay 
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